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YENTL directed by Barbra Streisand...
Screenplay by Jack Rosenthal and Barbra Streisand...
...Jews have a word for what it took to make this movie: chutzpah. Barbra Streisand-the producer, director, co-writer and star of Yentl-spent 15 years turning Isaac Bashevis Singer's 20-page story Yentl, the Yeshiva Boy into a 2-hr. 15-min. musical extravaganza. At 41, she dares to impersonate a Lithuanian girleen. She has twisted Singer's story-of a studious imp who dresses up as a boy and contrives to marry her best friend's fiancee-into a moral tale about three victims of circumstance and prejudice. She has found in this...
...they'll go by car, get out and walk, knock on doors. It'll be worse." While continuing their lawsuit, the companies have rerouted their buses to nearby Bel Air to allow the star-struck to look for such celebrities as Burt Reynolds, Barbra Streisand or Gregory Peck...
Only 20 and a singer for barely three years, Barbra seldom hits a note on pitch, but she slides into tune with such grace that her quavers often sound intended...